All -

Its been long in the making but I am nearing the end of my workshop project. I needed better storage for my Polaris ATV's and a good place I could work on them. I have two layers of pressure treated 3/4 plywood for my flooring. (Choose this for $$$ and to evade building permit issues as to why I don't have poured concrete.) Okay so here comes my question. What all shop flooring do you all have for those with shops and garages? And what would you recommend to go over a wood floor?

I have been looking around from indoor/outdoor carpet that I really don't want to do to all kinds of SHOP MATS (Coin grip, Diamond grip etc.). Is tile an option?

Appreciate any input!

Thanks all,

R'

 

The interlocking mats like at Menards would work great. Easy to pull up and clean if needed. Tile would be prone to breaking but another option could be linoleum or linoluem tile. Have you looked into that spreadable epoxy flooring? Not sure if it works on wood but I know it's sweet on concrete.

 

In my shed, built only to store my ATV, I simply painted the floor 3/4" OSB (small shed
9'x12' to avoid building permits) I simply painted the foor with 3 coats of garage floor paint and where tires roll and contact floor, I stapled carpet squares all along to protect the floor. My tires are heavily studded for snow removal and off trail riding. Works for me. Here are some photos. Still have to paint the siding roughly same color and all wooden trims on the outside will be painted same chocolate color as the soffit.

 

I used 2 layers of 3/4 exterior plywood but then had a quart of used oil spill so this summer I will be doing some roof repairs(tree limb fell on roof) adding a window and laying down a one piece linoleum floor. I was happy with the wood floor until I had the oil spill.

 

R.....So what's the deal here. Do you have a pic of the current situation? Do you actually have floor joists that are level with plywood screwed on top, or are you saying you just laid down some plywood in the dirt or across unfixed boards. Need some more details......Are the posts for the structure below the frost line (if there are any)? Hard to tell, not knowing what you're working with. How deep are the joists, pressure treated? Don't mean to sound condescending, just need more.

 

Thanks for all the info. guys! FR, yes I will give ya a little more details (And I know you weren't being condescending cuz if YOU were, slam #$57@#8, lol..lol).

Okay I do have pics but its pics of its unfinished state. Still in the works, working with Lowes building designer, my cousin and finally my father-in-law (master builder for 40plus years and he knows his STUFF!) I just need to get the pics up here. Its a 12x16 dims pressured treated (PT) floor on PT floor joists boxed floor frame on top of deck block on top of compacted building gravel. - Make sense? All pre-drilled and screwed w/r to all the flooring and framing and walls etc. Only with the roofing have we used different grade nails (roofing, 6 penny, 8 penning and 16 penning for all the truss work etc..) I have a A-Frame roof, number 4 pitch with overhangs (Pre-fabed trusses from Lowes). Roof is UP (PTL!) with all its Autumn Brown Asphalt shingles (Roof felt underneath and drip edge on the sides). Sides are 1" OB ply with T-1-11 Smart sideing (pre-primed) over it. I have a 7x7 wide opening for my garage door, going on order tomorrow or Wednesday. Ramp design and materials still in the works. I will probably follow the 1inch per foot rule and build out of PT lumber (Open to ideas there too!)

But before I do anything with the door I need to make sure before I complete my flooring arrangement so the context of this thread!

See I was thinking about OIL and Gas spill mishaps. Thats why I am going with second layer of PT flooring. Whatever could go on top of that to protect from liquid spill damage and you KNOW how it is, I will be brining my ATVs back wet and muddy until I get to cleaning them. So the floor is going to take it all, weight, tear and spills etc.

I like the paint idea. I just wouldn't know how to go about getting linolium (Sp?) that is right for a shop floor. I don't want anything that will be too slippery either.

Seems like nothing is ever easy! Shame it couldn't be a concrete floor eh? Well one day I will have my attached garage with my new big house, lol...lol

Thanks all,

R'

 

While you are at Lowes check their paint dept.valspar makes a great
floor paint and can have texture added to it if so desired.

 

you could try somthing like the hurculiner roll on bedliner. Would be easy to put down,durable, will stick to damn near anything and holds up really well to gas and chemicals.

 

Hmmm the Hercules Bed liner, now that is a thought I hadn't yet considered. Okay but wouldn't that be boo-coo expensive given my surface area of my workshop. I hear just doing the bed of a truck spray in stuff is a few hundred. Don't know, never done that myself with anything. If I were to go that route I would take advantage of my own bed and toss that crappy bed liner I have and unbolt my racks and get'r done on those too.

But that would all come down to $$$$$

Thoughts?

Thx,

R'

 

Herculiner is the type that you roll on yourself, it's not as costly as the spray-in liners.

I put down a concrete floor in my shed after looking at the cost of a wood floor & considering how long the wood would last.

Good luck in your decision....